JSC2012-E-216501 (20 Sept. 2012) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 33/34 backup crew member Chris Cassidy of NASA strikes a thoughtful pose as he participates in final qualification exams in front of a Soyuz spacecraft mock-up Sept. 20, 2012. Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin are serving as understudies for prime crewmembers Oleg Novitskiy, Evgeny Tarelkin and Kevin Ford of NASA who are scheduled to launch on Oct. 23 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in their Soyuz TMA-06 spacecraft to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA